Chapter Summaries

Irina told Professor Sprout about the mutated Chinese Mangle-Snapper and urged her to cultivate more of them as protection against the coming war. She arrived late for detention with Umbridge and discovered that the decorative cat plates in Umbridge’s office contained traces of tortured, murdered cats.

• Irina explained that the mutated Chinese Mangle-Snapper grew quickly, produced more seeds, and had teeth capable of piercing steel and weaker Shield Charms.
• Professor Sprout was alarmed by Irina’s contact with the dangerous plant, but Irina persuaded her that the plants could help protect young wizards in a future war.
• Professor Sprout accepted Irina’s reasoning and escorted her out of the greenhouse.
• Irina arrived at Umbridge’s office at five fifteen, late for her detention.
• Irina sensed pain, pleading, and hatred from the cat plates and realized Umbridge had tortured cats and sealed their remaining souls inside them.
• Umbridge greeted Irina and pointed out that she was late.

Irina confronted Umbridge over her blood-writing detention quill, and Linley rushed to the Defense Against the Dark Arts office when he learned Irina and Harry were there. After blasting his way inside and seeing the quill in Irina’s hand, Linley aimed his wand at Umbridge and began to cast an Unforgivable Curse.

• Irina stopped Harry from writing with Umbridge’s blood quill and accused Umbridge of inflicting corporal punishment.
• Umbridge insisted that Irina had to obey her detention orders.
• Linley emerged from his dormitory and learned from Irvin that Irina and Harry had been sent to detention with Umbridge.
• Linley blasted open the office door, concealed the damage with spells, and saw the quill in Irina’s hand.
• Linley pointed his wand at Umbridge and began saying, “Avada...”

Linley and Irina punished Umbridge after discovering she had used her black quill to torture Harry, with Linley using a Time Loop Formation to make Umbridge endure repeated injuries. He then placed Umbridge under the Imperius Curse and forced her to write “I am a filthy pink toad” with the quill.

• Linley prepared to cast the Killing Curse on Umbridge, but Irina stopped him and told him she had not written with the quill.
• Linley cast the Cruciatus Curse on Umbridge, and Irina joined him, leaving Umbridge unable to speak after nearly ten minutes.
• Linley activated a Time Loop Formation and repeatedly stabbed Umbridge with the black quill, preserving her memories of the pain while restoring her injuries each time.
• Linley ended the time loop, cast the Imperius Curse on Umbridge, and ordered her to write “I am a filthy pink toad” with the quill.
• Umbridge obeyed as the words became deep scars on the back of her hand, while Irina watched and Harry felt a guilty satisfaction.

Linley used the Imperius Curse to torment Umbridge, then suppressed her memories before leaving with Irina and Harry. Umbridge later discovered her missing memories and demanded an explanation from Dumbledore, who suspected Linley was responsible.

• Linley stopped the Imperius Curse, cast a Memory Charm on Umbridge, and left her unconscious in her office.
• Irina repaired the office door, and Harry followed her and Linley to dinner, shaken by their use of an Unforgivable Curse.
• Harry asked Ron whether the Unforgivable Curses were truly unforgivable, then decided Irina could not be wrong.
• Umbridge woke with a message carved into her hand and discovered that her memories since the opening feast had vanished.
• Umbridge confronted Dumbledore outside his office, demanding to know why she had been attacked at Hogwarts.

After Dumbledore confronted Umbridge, Linley and Irina told him what she had done, and he agreed to consider a rule against corporal punishment using the Dark Arts. Linley and Irina then prepared to leave for France to handle the giant clan matter, while Linley suggested framing a French Dark wizard for Umbridge’s attack.

• Umbridge demanded that Dumbledore find her attacker and publicly apologize, but he refused to apologize for her failure to protect herself.
• Linley and Irina revealed themselves to Dumbledore and explained how Umbridge had tortured cats and forced Harry to write with a Dark Arts Quill; they also admitted using the Cruciatus Curse and a Time Loop Formation on her.
• Dumbledore said he had to give Umbridge an explanation, and Linley suggested finding a Dark wizard in L'enfer Alley to take the blame.
• Irina proposed a school rule banning professors from using harmful corporal punishment, especially punishment involving the Dark Arts, and Dumbledore agreed.
• On Saturday morning, Irina met Linley beside the Black Lake and gave him a Cross-border Portkey bound for Dijon, France.

Linley and Irina found Hagrid and Madame Maxime near Dijon and offered to help them reach the giants with a new Apparition Key. Linley revealed that Dumbledore had also sent him to eliminate the giants if they became uncontrollable or sided with the Death Eaters.

• Linley used a Magic Detector to identify possible locations for Hagrid and Madame Maxime, then traveled with Irina to investigate them.
• Linley and Irina found Hagrid and Madame Maxime in a cave near Dijon.
• Irina created an Illegal Portkey and explained that she and her teacher had developed an Apparition Key that could take them to a destination they envisioned or whose coordinates they knew.
• Linley told Hagrid and Madame Maxime that he had come as an executioner and would wipe out the giants if they became hostile or fell under the Death Eaters' control.

Linley, Irina, Hagrid, and Madame Maxime visited the giants’ valley, where Hagrid offered their leader a Goblet Immortal Fire and arranged a meeting with Dumbledore. As the group hoped the giants could survive peacefully, a masked wizard arrived on a nearby mountain.

• Irina gave Madame Maxime a Cross-border Apparition Key, and the four traveled to the giants’ valley.
• Hagrid explained that only seventy or eighty giants remained and warned that overcrowding could lead either to infighting or attacks on wizards and Muggles.
• Hagrid approached the giants’ leader, Gogo, and presented Dumbledore’s Goblet Immortal Fire as a gift.
• Gogo’s interpreters relayed Hagrid’s request for a meeting with Dumbledore when his envoy brought more gifts the next day.
• A black-cloaked wizard wearing a silver mask arrived on a nearby mountain, with a snake emerging from a skull moving on the wizard’s right arm.

Adolf Shafik secretly plotted to overthrow the giants’ Gogo, Cacus, by recruiting the resentful Gogoma. The next day, Hagrid and Madame Maxime resumed negotiations with Cacus, and Hagrid discovered that his half-brother Grop lived in the camp in harsh conditions.

• Adolf Shafik entered the giants’ camp and decided to provoke a power struggle among them.
• Shafik offered Gogoma a chance to become the new Gogo and promised to curse Cacus so Gogoma could kill him.
• Gogoma agreed to cooperate, and Shafik left the camp to prepare the curse for the following night.
• Hagrid and Madame Maxime returned with a goblin-made helmet, which pleased Cacus as they discussed Dumbledore’s opposition to killing the giants.
• Hagrid learned that his half-brother Grop lived in the camp, where the other giants discriminated against him and made him do the hardest work.

Hagrid and Madame Maxime continued their attempt to negotiate with the giants after Gogoma killed Cacus and became the new Gogo. Linley discovered evidence that a Death Eater had secretly weakened Cacus, while Gogoma tried to kill Hagrid at the camp.

• At night, Cacus and Gogoma fought for hours, and Gogoma killed Cacus by wrenching off his head.
• The giants rallied behind Gogoma, who put on Cacus's helmet and claimed the title of Gogo.
• Hagrid and Madame Maxime decided to present their gifts to Gogoma despite Cacus's death.
• Linley used the Magic Detector to locate a wizard nearby and concluded that a Death Eater had cursed Cacus to weaken him.
• Gogoma ordered two giants to seize Hagrid, but an invisible blade cut off both giants' heads.

Linley killed Gogoma and the giants who attacked him with Ziwei Heavenly Fire, while sparing Hagrid, Madame Maxime, and the valley’s other life. Hagrid feared his half-brother Grop had died, but Linley showed him that Grop had survived behind a stone house.

• Linley killed two giants with Sectumsempra and demanded that Gogoma submit or die.
• Gogoma attacked Linley, who severed his arm with a silent Sectumsempra.
• When the giants charged, Linley unleashed Ziwei Heavenly Fire and burned them and Gogoma to ash while shielding Hagrid, Madame Maxime, and the valley’s plants and animals.
• Hagrid realized his half-brother Grop might have been caught in the flames and cried out in grief.
• Linley pointed out that Grop had survived behind a stone house, where he cautiously peeked out.

Linley learned that Adolf Shafik had cursed Cacus and caused the giants’ internal conflict, then used the Imperius Curse to order him to transfer most Shafik Family assets to the Roll Family. Shafik Apparated away to carry out the order, and Linley reassured Irina that the family’s other wizards were unlikely to notice.

• Irina returned with the unconscious Adolf Shafik and reported that he had caused the giants’ conflict with cursed Dark Arts items.
• Linley identified Shafik as a Death Eater, then tortured him with the Cruciatus Curse after he insulted Irina.
• Linley used the Imperius Curse to order Shafik to legally transfer the Shafik Family’s assets, except its Gringotts vault, to the Roll Family.
• Shafik Apparated away to follow Linley’s order, and Linley told Irina that Shafik managed most of the family’s businesses himself.

Linley and Irina secured Grop’s safety before traveling to L'enfer Alley to capture a Dark Wizard for the plan they had agreed on with Dumbledore. They returned to Hogwarts with the frozen wizard who would take the blame.

• Linley placed a Magical Contract on Grop that barred him from attacking underage wizards or leaving the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts without Lynn Roll’s permission.
• Madame Maxime returned to Beauxbatons, while Hagrid took Grop to the grounds of Hogwarts using a Cross-border Apparition Key.
• Linley and Irina traveled to L'enfer Alley to find a Dark Wizard who could take the blame.
• Irina used the Imperius Curse on a Dark Wizard just after he killed a rival, then froze him without killing him.
• Linley and Irina returned to Hogwarts with the captured Dark Wizard concealed in Irina’s enchanted pocket.

Linley and Irina reported that the giants had been wiped out after a Death Eater’s intervention turned them against Hagrid, while Hagrid brought his half-brother Grop back to Hogwarts. They handed Dumbledore a captured dark wizard to serve as a scapegoat, and Dumbledore used Legilimency to confirm the man’s identity before deciding whether to use him.

• Linley told Dumbledore that he had killed the giants after Gogoma threatened Hagrid, and Irina explained how a Shafik family Death Eater had caused the conflict.
• Irina told Dumbledore that Hagrid had returned with Grop, his half-brother and the last pure-blooded giant in Britain.
• Linley showed Dumbledore the Magical Contract he had made Grop sign, and Dumbledore approved of the safeguards.
• Irina produced the dark wizard she and Linley had captured in French L'enfer Alley as a potential scapegoat.
• Dumbledore removed Irina’s Imperius Curse and used Legilimency to confirm that the dark wizard was genuinely evil.

Dumbledore handed Umbridge the Dark wizard who had attacked her, and the Ministry later announced that a Dementor had given him the Kiss during transport to Azkaban. Linley then received intercepted intelligence from Michel Anderson about a news story Fudge planned to publish in the Daily Prophet.

• Dumbledore confirmed the captured Dark wizard’s identity and let Umbridge take him from Hogwarts for Ministry judgment.
• The Ministry announced that the Dark wizard had been attacked by a Dementor and given the Kiss while being transported to Azkaban.
• Linley gave Irina a letter from Michel Anderson containing news Fudge planned to publish in the Daily Prophet.
• Irina read that Michel had intercepted the news through a reporter working under Cadron, the editor-in-chief aligned with Fudge.

Linley and Irina learned that Sturgis Podmore had been framed for breaking into the Ministry and imprisoned in Azkaban, then urged Dumbledore to rescue him and replace Azkaban with a new prison. They declined to formally join the Order of the Phoenix but agreed to help, and Dumbledore sent them to free Sturgis.

• Irina found a press clipping reporting Sturgis Podmore's conviction and six-month sentence in Azkaban.
• Linley and Irina asked Dumbledore about Sturgis, and he said the Order had lost contact with him and suspected dark wizards had used the Imperius Curse to frame him.
• Linley and Irina argued that they should rescue Sturgis and that Azkaban should be replaced with a new prison.
• Dumbledore invited Linley and Irina to join the Order of the Phoenix, but they declined formal membership while offering to help the Order.
• Dumbledore formally asked Linley and Irina to go to Azkaban and rescue Sturgis Podmore.

Linley and Irina agreed to Dumbledore’s request and traveled to Azkaban to rescue Sturgis Podmore. They clashed with the prison’s Aurors, leaving many of them injured as the fight began.

• Linley accepted Dumbledore’s request on behalf of the Order of the Phoenix and went with Irina to Azkaban that night.
• Irina Transfigured a plank into a boat, and Linley used Alchemy Formations to speed their journey to the island.
• Linley and Irina arrived at Azkaban, where they found the prison guarded by a greatly reinforced force of Aurors.
• Linley struck an Auror with a Disarming Charm that overwhelmed his Shield Charm, and he and Irina revealed Death Eater disguises.
• An elite Auror ordered the squad to kill them, and the Aurors fired Killing Curses at Linley and Irina.
• Linley and Irina answered with Bombarda spells that blasted more than twenty Aurors aside and left them severely injured.

Linley and Irina fought their way through the Aurors guarding Azkaban, using concealed magic to avoid revealing their identities. When hundreds of Dementors joined the battle, Linley’s enormous white wolf Patronus drove them away, leaving the pair to move on after Irina disabled the remaining Aurors.

• Linley used smoke and Mana Suppression Flame to conceal their abilities and block the Aurors’ Killing Curses.
• Irina disarmed and stunned Aurors while Linley helped incapacitate more than thirty of them outside the harbor.
• The remaining Aurors summoned hundreds of Dementors and fired Killing Curses to trap Linley and Irina.
• Linley summoned a gigantic white wolf Patronus that injured and scattered the Dementors.
• Irina stunned the remaining Aurors and used three Chinese Mangle-Snappers to overcome the last three elite Aurors, then put the creatures away before they could kill anyone.

Linley and Irina broke into Azkaban prison and rescued Sturgis Podmore at Dumbledore’s request. Linley stayed behind to destroy the third level and kill its imprisoned Dark wizards and Death Eaters before rejoining Irina and Sturgis.

• Linley and Irina stunned the fallen Aurors, removed their masks, and headed to Azkaban prison.
• Irina blasted open the prison gate, and Linley silenced Sturgis Podmore’s cell before telling him they had come at Dumbledore’s request.
• Linley shattered the cell door, and Irina helped Sturgis out and took him toward the shore.
• Linley told Irina he would clear the third level, where the Death Eaters and Dark wizards could otherwise join Voldemort.
• Linley cast Sectumsempra, killing the imprisoned Dark wizards and Death Eaters and cutting apart the fortress’s third level.
• Linley escaped the collapsing rubble with an Alchemy Formation and headed back toward Irina and Sturgis.

Linley and Irina rescued Sturgis Podmore from Azkaban and brought him to Dumbledore at Hogwarts. Sturgis revealed that Bellatrix Lestrange had used the Imperius Curse to send him after the prophecy about Harry, while Dumbledore prepared to lead the Order of the Phoenix more openly.

• Linley, Irina, and Sturgis used the Apparition Key to leave Azkaban, where the awakening Aurors found the fortress's third floor collapsed.
• Linley and Irina brought Sturgis to Dumbledore, who thanked them for rescuing him.
• Dumbledore told Sturgis that a trusted companion could wield power without being corrupted, and Irina urged the Order of the Phoenix to stop hiding.
• Sturgis pledged the Order's obedience to Dumbledore, then explained that Bellatrix Lestrange had Imperiused him to steal the prophecy about Harry from the Department of Mysteries.
• Dumbledore said he hoped to preserve the prophecy's crystal ball, and Irina used the Apparition Key to send Sturgis away.

After Linley and Irina rescued Sturgis, the Daily Prophet reported an Azkaban prison break that further damaged Fudge’s standing. Fudge appointed Umbridge High Inquisitor at Hogwarts, but a counter-article exposed his false claims about parental support, beginning a public-opinion battle against him and Umbridge.

• Linley and Irina returned to Hogwarts after rescuing Sturgis, and the Daily Prophet reported that two unidentified Death Eaters had broken prisoners out of Azkaban.
• The Azkaban escape intensified public criticism of Fudge and calls for his impeachment.
• Fudge issued Educational Decree No. 23, appointing Dolores Umbridge Hogwarts High Inquisitor.
• Irina read the Ministry’s announcement to Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who laughed at a second article reporting parents’ fierce opposition.
• Linley and Irina used the Daily Prophet to turn public opinion against Fudge and Umbridge without allowing Umbridge to harm the students.